diff --git a/src/libprs500/ebooks/lrf/__init__.py b/src/libprs500/ebooks/lrf/__init__.py
index fe6166b32e..a111dd2d45 100644
--- a/src/libprs500/ebooks/lrf/__init__.py
+++ b/src/libprs500/ebooks/lrf/__init__.py
@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ def option_parser(usage):
                       help=r'''The maximum number of levels to recursively process '''
                               '''links. A value of 0 means thats links are not followed. '''
                               '''A negative value means that <a> tags are ignored.''')
-    link.add_option('--link-exclude', dest='link_exclude', default='$',
+    link.add_option('--link-exclude', dest='link_exclude', default='@',
                       help='''A regular expression. <a> tags whoose href '''
                       '''matches will be ignored. Defaults to %default''')
     chapter = parser.add_option_group('CHAPTER OPTIONS')
diff --git a/src/libprs500/ebooks/lrf/html/convert_from.py b/src/libprs500/ebooks/lrf/html/convert_from.py
index 3fcdc5c62c..f02b2c5ffa 100644
--- a/src/libprs500/ebooks/lrf/html/convert_from.py
+++ b/src/libprs500/ebooks/lrf/html/convert_from.py
@@ -1213,6 +1213,8 @@ class HTMLConverter(object):
             self.end_current_para()
             self.end_current_block()
             self.current_block = self.book.create_text_block()
+            ts = self.current_block.textStyle.copy()
+            self.current_block.textStyle = ts
             self.current_block.textStyle.attrs['parindent'] = '0'
             if tag.contents:
                 c = tag.contents[0]